Traditional Investigations Under Pressure

In the Internet Age, official investigators, like prosecutors in Japan, must change. They must embrace more transparency, and make themselves more accountable to the public. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/11/transparency.html Technology promotes accountability by, for example, enabling witness interviews to be recorded. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/09/exposure.html

in reference to:

"they are sure to face further calls for limits to their power, including demands for interrogations to be recorded to prevent abuse."
- FT.com / Japan - Calls for curbs on Japanese prosecutors (view on Google Sidewiki)

--Benjamin Wright